I am a Technical Designer by training and vocation. I live and breathe both as an engineer and a traditional designer. I can code and script, as well as support the creation of UX and UI. After both a Bachelor and Post-graduate degree in Digital Humanities, I obtained a Ph.D. in Emerging Digital Technologies, where I focused on understanding users’ expectations and interactions in unknown environments.

After that, I moved to the industry, where I worked as Technical Designer and UI Programmer ever since!

Technical Designer & UI Programmer – Gunzilla Games

• Optimise existing HUD to reduce performance costs and reduce draw calls
• Develop a new, polished version of the in-game HUD
• Create new HUD workflows for additional game modes

Technical Designer & UI Programmer – Directive Games

• Expand a custom-built UI system (Both C++ and Blueprints)
  • In charge of implementing the UI of two different games (The Machines Arena, Civitas) for PC and Mobile
• UX design and UI implementation for an undisclosed B2B Project
• Controller and Keyboard interaction design and Implementation
• Advocate for Inclusive and Accessible design (Represented the company at the GAConf in London 2024)

Unreal Engine Technical Designer – realworld one

• Design VR experiences using a custom multiplayer platform running using Unreal Engine
• Standardize, redesign and implement tools that could be used across hundreds of experiences
• Create a standardized UI that automatically guided players in their tasks

Technical Designer – BUas

• Co-Design of a rapid idea prototyping card game that requires no pre-defined cards or concepts to be used
• Create a remote data collection plugin for Unreal Engine (C++)
• Full-stack Unreal Engine developer on the EscapeTower project

Full Stack Developer – PERCRO Labs

• Full stack developer for B2B applications. Applications ranged from helping children with autism in VR, to digitally preserve
  and exhibit cultural heritage

Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna – Pisa, Italy

Ph.D. in Emerging Digital Technologies

• Thesis on players expectations in unknown virtual environments
• Graduated with honors

Università di Pisa – Pisa, Italy

Post-Graduate Degree in Digital Humanities

• Thesis on using game engines to create virtual cultural heritage exhibits
• Graduated with honors

Università di Pisa – Pisa, Italy

Bachelor Degree in Digital Humanities

• Thesis on using Markov Chains for authorship attribution on fictional characters
• Graduated with honors

Former King’s College London and National Taiwan University visiting student.